S.Amdt. 1758Senate114th Congress (2015-2017)2nd degree
S.Amdt. 1758
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Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Submitted June 4, 2015
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SA 1758. Mr. KIRK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Strike section 1649 and insert the following: SEC. 1649. LIMITATION ON PROVIDING CERTAIN MISSILE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. (a) Extension and Expansion of Limitation on Providing Certain Sensitive Missile Defense Information.--Section 1246(c)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66; 127 Stat. 923), as amended by section 1243(2)(A) of the Carl Levin and Howard P. ``Buck'' McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (Public Law 113-291; 128 Stat. 3564), is further amended-- (1) by striking ``information.--No funds'' and inserting the following: ``information.-- ``(A) In general.--No funds''; (2) by striking ``for fiscal year 2014 or 2015'' and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting ``for any fiscal year for the Department of Defense may be used to provide the Russian Federation with sensitive missile defense information or information relating to velocity at burnout of, or telemetry information on, United States missile interceptors or targets.''; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: ``(B) Waiver.--The Secretary of Defense may waive the limitation under subparagraph (A) if the Secretary certifies to the congressional defense committees that the Russia Federation-- ``(i) is complying with the Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter- Range Missiles, signed at Washington December 8, 1987, and entered into force June 1, 1988 (commonly referred to as the `Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty' or `INF Treaty'); ``(ii) has verifiably pulled its regular and irregular military forces out of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea; and ``(iii) has terminated its contract to sell the S-300 air defense system to the Islamic Republic of Iran.''. (b) Limitation on Integration of Missile Defense Systems.-- None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act or any other Act may be used to integrate in any way United States missile defense systems, including those of NATO, with missile defense systems of the Russian Federation. ______